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Textual thesaurus for "construction"

(noun) building

the act of constructing something

during the construction we had to take a detour; his hobby was the building of boats


(noun) building

the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones

their main business is home construction; workers in the building trades


(noun) structure

a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts

the structure consisted of a series of arches; she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons


(noun) mental synthesis

the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought


(noun) grammatical construction, expression

a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner


(noun) twist

an interpretation of a text or action

they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct